Nino jumps into making the eyes pop just a little bit more using levels and a luminosity mask in order to preserve the contrast of the eyes making the windows to the soul a little clearer.
How do you balance noise with the previous sharpening? These actions can often work against each other, so learning to balance the two to make sure you have the best image is critical. Nino focuses on that balance in this video.
What is a secondary correction? Nino will often pause in his workflow after he has done the majority of the heavy skin work to take a second look at all the colors in the frame. Getting certain areas under control will allow the image to take the color grading even better. This is a fine-tuning p...
The last step was targeting small areas that needed targeted adjustments. In this phase Nino focuses on overall skin tones, bringing the image back into the camera raw filter we see Nino focusing on contrast and color of the skin tones.
